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  1. Re:Question on Hacking Lightbulbs To Cause a Sustained Blackout · · Score: 1

    It is if they are hackable. On Newsroom the HBO show, The Military liaison suggested the apocalypse would come when a hacker shuts down the grid, opens up the dams (causing widespread flooding and destruction) and alters pressures on pipelines causing them to explode. So while you think a hackable light isn't something important its one step away from your electricity being turned off by a hacker. That is mayhem.

  2. Re:What's funny about Under the Dome on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 1

    You are the problem. You're narrow minded confused view of 'IP infringement is theft' idiocy is how we got and had to fight off SOPA and PIPA and ACTA. A OTA broadcast is free from US citizens to view because it is paid for by commercials. Every single episode of UTD was broadcasted by the cbs affiliate in the affected areas OTA. If you don't have cable but have an analog to digital converter box (Because like me you have a perfectly functional 13 yr old TV) you have had no blackouts or interrupts, just a lot of news about something that doesn't affect you because you don't pay TW or CBS.
    therefore someone who is playing a service provider for a product (the cbs channel in a clearer formant than OTA) that isn't arriving due to hissy fits on the part of media giants, has a right to retrieve that product by different means. SO ac STFU & GTFO. SMH

  3. Re:What's funny about Under the Dome on TV Show Piracy Soars After CBS Blackout · · Score: 2

    'famous Swedish library'
    Is that the one that floats on a galleon with a skull and crossbones flag. They are some of the best aren't they.
    Here is something interesting that OP ignored. It isn't illegal. There is no piracy. Deep inhale. HOW? Simple. Thanks to Tivo it is legal to time shift a show after it is broadcast. So if you are a) living in the US. b)paying a cable provider or have TV to receive OTA broadcasts then c) you can watch the show!
    The funniest thing of all is that neither side will win except the famous Swedish library who floats in its bay letting you watch what you want when you want it.

  4. Re:A Minus Minus - Not a Pineapple on Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON · · Score: 1

    what! I wanted a wireless enabled fruit! I mean Apple has never produced any wireless or wired apples. Just things with apples on them. A red, apple shaped router would have been awesome and a conversation piece. Just think no one would suppect hacking with a pineapple sitting beside your laptop. (they would just you are crazy in starbucks. Damn, there is the perfect wifi hacking toolcase. A starbucks mug!)

  5. Re:MODERATOR ALERT on Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON · · Score: 1

    So 'framing' Karma is bad now? pretty bold statement from and AC. I think it looks like you are complianing where there is no problem.

  6. Re:pineapple on Wi-Fi Pineapple Hacking Device Sells Out At DEF CON · · Score: 1

    so, what's the dealio? is the whole thing packed into a real pineapple, or what?

    No its packed inside a plastic lime thats inside a plastic coconut. They just call it a pineapple because it confuses the f*** out of the authorities.

  7. Re:I can't install Linux on a UEFI machine? on Researchers Demo Exploits Bypassing UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    not right now but the black hats are working on ways to allow it so you can make that worthless Microsoft surface pro scream on Red hat

  8. Re:Does this apply to all athletes? on 9th Circuit Court Elevates Celebrity Privacy Rights Over Video Game Portrayals · · Score: 1

    that's what the unions are for. It's not going to be hard to make a game, but the athletes will be paid for their likeness.

    I'm not sure how I feel about this. I don't think that a famous person should have their likeness used for anything any commercial venture wants to use it for. What if they made a baby-killing simulator and used his likeness. Shouldn't he be able to stop that?

    With regards to biographies, it seems like that should fall under news/reporting and be excepted.

    Hrmm.. I don't know.

    Better question: What if they made a baby-killing simulator and used Casey Anthony's likeness. Shouldn't she be able to stop that? She was found innocent in a court of law.

  9. Re:Does this apply to all athletes? on 9th Circuit Court Elevates Celebrity Privacy Rights Over Video Game Portrayals · · Score: 1

    which is why they make games with College atheletes

  10. Re:some are more equal than others on 9th Circuit Court Elevates Celebrity Privacy Rights Over Video Game Portrayals · · Score: 0

    and you know this how? NSA is tracking everyone. Yes, i believe there very well could have from the numerous security footage on the stadiums now. Not his girlfriend and hot chocolated them. Yes they certainly had enough facial and body shots to replicate him.

  11. Re:no, it says what you can copy. copy right on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    well I definitely believe they want to block use of the press for all 3.

  12. Re:good on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 2

    Chicago? WTF? No, Flight 93 was heading to either the White House or the Capital. No one gave a flying F*** about the Chicago Commodities market.

  13. Re:good on US Promises Not To Kill Or Torture Snowden · · Score: 1

    Yes that is what the administration believes.

  14. Re:Like source code on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    No, the image of Sculpture is copyrightable. The sculpture is only if its recognized as art. A carved inscriped brick is still a brick unless it has a trademark applied. A picture of said brick can be copyritten which is why it is broken,

  15. Re:no, it says what you can copy. copy right on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    no, the purpose of copyright as it originally existed was censorship. The people who could afford to buy a printing press could suddenly print copies of any of the books in existence. Find something obscure enough and suddenly its yours. to prevent the theft of new works from enterprising people the guilds asked for a protection so only those who could prove they wrote them manuscript could get the money, Thus censoring anyone else from making money with reprints. However, it was set to only last a short period of time as an incentive for the person to continue making works. And once he pasted for it to arrive in the commons so others could continue it if they so choose.
    Now, its like Candyland from Django Unchained. Its a great collection house where ideas are chained away making money for immortal master by picking digital cotton. Master buys up the ideas and then they are lost.
    Ask why isn't art actually replicated? because its obvious and unique. Art isn't valuable if its ubiquitous. Thats not art at all, that a trinket, a geegaw, a knickknacks.
    Only a fool makes elaborate designs as art and posts them for free on a printing site expecting to freely download them for production without trademarking each image. He spent the time making it right so if you don't plant on recouping that investment and you want people to have free knickknacks what is the harm in doing that. None, its expected.
    Should they have asked? Yes. Since when do Fortune 500 companies care about the little person's rights?
    Finally, real world products are not subject to copyright nor should they be. Its broken enough. They are subject to Trademark and trade dress and patents.
    Let them stay there. Yes, he was infringed upon. However, he didn't take appropriate precautions. They exist and have existed for two centuries. If he had crafted it from stone nothing would have changed if a reproduction was made. He couldn't have sued over copyright law because it doesn't apply there. The means of production is meaningless. It doesn't matter if Asher created his art with plastic and technology or with a chisel and stone. It has to be trademarked or its is freely reproducible,
    Copyright needs to be returned to media: books, movies, plays, music. Art is not media. Its Art. Its about a unique single item. Not mass consumption.
    Oh and he deleted all his stuff.
    If we really need some control over 3d printing look to fashion design.

  16. Re:Radical plan to destroy Microsoft tablets forev on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    "If Microsoft went that way, then for a few hundred million dollars they would forever destroy their chance to ever crack the tablet market" .And that is a bad thing?

  17. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 2

    can you upgrade those bananas after you purchase them to get say $2 plantains? No, I didn't think so. A loss leader is something to get you into the store to buy higher priced items not an upgrade to that item.

  18. Re:Thats the problem - you can't. on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    About the same as Britney Spears' third child being named Broccoli

  19. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    Have fun unlocking a UEFI secure boot that gives you 2 seconds to enter that layer

  20. Re:Dumping? on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They just assume that they could steam roller the world into liking a product that no one wants. They were told repeatedly during the beta cycle that metro was problematic at best. MS refused to listen because they to have the damn tiles. MS forget that they are no longer in the same space as apple and Google. Not only was it totally unacceptable to Businesses who are their primary clients and purchasers but to the general public. the people who like it are those who would have liked it regardless and are so small in number that its not economically feasable to do so as we all saw.
    As for dumping a built unsold product that they have already taken a write off for, any more is better than no money. Sell for $99 would hurt but people would buy them. Unfortunate RTs are a locked ecosystem so they would be still half useless.
    Microsoft needs to accept the fact that their code is way to large now but they can't change it either. The windows 7 style is the only way it will sell. (actually had they flips it. Had default to the desktop, turned Metro into a new start bar and allowed the live tiles to be a choice, it would have flown off the shelf. IT is very stavble and has a host of good updates. Its just Metro is in the way. Since surface RT is all metro, that is the cheif problem.

  21. Re:We're not independent from the biosphere on Gut Microbes Can Split a Species · · Score: 1

    At least that explains the riots rationally.

  22. Re:Nothing new here. on Gut Microbes Can Split a Species · · Score: 1

    So that's what the actors and actresses who engage in fellatio and cunnilingus on camera are doing for money. And I though all those movies had no scientific merit. Now I can proudly say they are forced to check gut bacteria compatibility, before they mate.

  23. Re:meaning on Gut Microbes Can Split a Species · · Score: 1

    Pacific Rim?

  24. Re:I'm shocked! on Yahoo Censors Tumblr Porn · · Score: 1

    Which is why a mass exodus is always the thing to do immediately.

  25. Re:The Battle Continues on How DRM Won · · Score: 5, Interesting

    True. Its one of the reasons that I still use Windows rather than abandon it totally for Chromium. The tools to fight the drm to download and archive content still exist for Windows. While Windows thinks its converting to tablet its actually committing suicide. However, that's neither here nor there on drm. Streaming and the cloud have not given DRM a victory by no means. In fact its a sign of desperation. The content distributors are so desperate to continue the distribution that they are willing to lose it entirely. Huh? you say.
    What happens if we suffer a terrorist attack? A nuclear 9/11 on silicon valley? Or an earthquake? That cloud will dissipate and with it goes all those songs, movies and games. You don't have it if it doesn't sit on a device in your possession. You rent it instead. Anyone remember those DVDs that lasted 3 days? I loved them. Why? because there had absolutely no encryption on them at all. All I had to do was rip the movie and I owned it. Still do in the original sleeve. of the new disc has a name in sharpie on it.
    DRM has never been about copyright infringement. DRM has always been about blocking alterations to the change in distribution. The big names like their money. They don't want it to go away. Short of having all their property seized and them arrested and put in jail, this wont change. (unless aforementioned event above happens)
    The cloud is meaningless extension of that interference hailed as progress so those who do it causally will quit. We need to be vigilant to remind that that ownership requires physical possession. If you don't have it so it can play anywhere at anytime, you don't have it.
    Will it ever change? Not until either aforementioned event or arrest is made.
    We are headed to the world of Continuum. (if you haven't watched this series, you should. Its excellent and very prophetic in a not overt way.)
    We must be the change in which we seek. We must continue to fight. DRM has not won. Its hasn't lost either.